Life Quotes by Geoffrey Beene

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

— Geoffrey Beene

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

— Geoffrey Beene

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

— Geoffrey Beene

Design is an unknown.

— Geoffrey Beene

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

— Geoffrey Beene

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

— Geoffrey Beene

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

— Geoffrey Beene

I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

— Geoffrey Beene

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

— Geoffrey Beene

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

— Geoffrey Beene

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

— Geoffrey Beene

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

— Geoffrey Beene